This handbook for teachers and educators explores ways of nurturing resilience in vulnerable students. It proposes a new, positive way of thinking about schools as institutions that can foster cognitive and socio-emotional competence in all students.
Individual chapters examine effective practices in schools and classrooms, and assess a range of classroom processes, such as engagement, inclusion, collaboration and prosocial behaviour. The author makes use of case studies throughout to bring to life classroom activities and concrete strategies that will promote best practice for enhancing student resilience, and offers a framework that can be adapted to the existing nature, culture and needs of each individual school community and its members.
Promoting Resilience in the Classroom is a valuable resource for educational practitioners as well as educational officers and policy makers engaged in school development and educational improvement.
Praise for the book:
`This is a very important book, and in many ways a very unusual book. It addresses dimensions of the classroom which many others leave untouched. The social and relational aspects which are addressed here are crucial, not only for the healthy development of every individual, but also for the climate which will affect their school achievements.
"This book combines a serious and well-researched model with many creative and practical possibilities for the everyday classroom. Fortunately, the great majority of teachers seek to operate their classrooms in ways which build a positive climate: they will welcome this book. I certainly do.'
- Chris Watkins, Reader in Education, University of London Institute of Education.
